This volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided by the jubilee year of 1500, in order to concentrate on the role of the laity (and to a lesser extent those in holy orders) in the religious transformations that occurred during the ‘long fifteenth century’ from the flourishing of the Devotio Moderna to the era of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Its aim is to re-examine, and open up dialogues about, the traditional religious, cultural, social, linguistic, and geographical rifts and connections of late medieval and early modern Europe, as well as the common national narratives that have influenced and distorted (and continue to influence and distort) the construction and maintenance of historical identities and beliefs.